The Baking Girl (and Cousins): Christmas Baking Extravaganza

Happy New Year! I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season so far. Christmas week was also sick week for us. That's an (epic) story for another time, for now this post will be dedicated to the fun and delicious stuff.  The Baking Girl had plenty of help from (Texan) cousins and oldest brother.  All I did was take pictures and sample all the goodies. They made cookies, cake pops, puppy chow (for humans), rice crispy treats, cinnamon buns, etc. I have to log in a lot of exercise time after this holiday season! 

 Here are pictures to share -

Christmas puppy chow - colored candy melts, rice Chex and powdered sugar

bagging the goodies

ready to distribute

crushed candy cane for the pretzels

pretzels coated with candy melt and topped with crushed candy cane

my sister cheering on the baking cousins

rice crispy Christmas tree treats

 

 giving the Baking Girl tips and tricks for red velvet cake

red velvet cake for cake pops

sugar cookie batter

olaf in the making

melting snowman cookie

making cinnamon buns with cousin Andre

if you teach a man to cook...

...he will never go hungry again

 it's the big brother's turn to help

 the little brother is trying to steal a cookie

 the Christmas cookie batter

Christmas treats!

 my fave